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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-19
THE INCONGRUOUS SPARKS
An Act that Has the Appearance of Be-
ing Intended to Aid Spectators.
The long and Stubborn Suit Over the Max
we'll Land Grant Settled by the Supreme
COurt-Cleveland and denomination.
sPARKs's STRANGE ACTION.
A Mo vement That Will Benefit No One Ell
cept SPECTATORS in Land.

A Mo vement That Will Benefit No One Ex-
cept Spectators in Land.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, April 18-"There are some
strange incongruites in the actions of the Com.
missioner of the General Land Office" said
Colorado visitor this morning. ssFor instance,
the rulings of Commissioner Sparks have had
the effect of raising the price of land scrip from
$l5 to S37. so per acre. do not say that the
Commissioner has any pecuniary interest IN
this, because l do not know that he has; but If
Republican Commissioner had done as this Off
Ger has there would have been cry that he was
standing in with the land scrip dealers, and was
sharing in the bull market" a4a.au Fl
lis there much of this scrip in existence7'
mot great deal, was the reply a'but there
is quite enough to make fortune for some land
attorneys. This scrip is technically known as
soldiers' additional scrip. Congress passed q
law long time ago. which is now repealed, Civ
ing to honorabiy discharged soldiers 160 acres of
land. Many settled on fractions Of quarter sec
tions and they were given scrip for the balance
of the quarter section due them under the law
A very few went into other sections of the
country and scripted the remainder of cir
quarter section. But most of them sold tn cir
scrip and took the proceeds and improved their
homes. 1t was originally sold by the settlers at
from 81. % to 50 so an acre. 1t fell into the
hands of spectators After the law was re-
pealed the scrip began 70 grow scarce. People
who wanted title to lands in the government
domain, as railroads for town sites. so as to
transfer it at once if desired, could procure it.
as at present. only by scriptng it. ANY bull in
the scrip market at this time is only benefit to
Rrecuiatorsn
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some interest here. The Postmaster general is
absent from the city, but your correspondent

some interest here The Postmaster general is
absent from the city, but your correspondent
saw Land Commissioner Sparks, who said:
II know nothing about the connection of any
member of the Villas family with the redwood
land ring. But Henry e. Putnam. who is one
of its chief people, called on me for the first
time with note of introduction from the Post
master-general He one of the men who
originally engineered this valuable property into
the hands of the foreign syndicate that now owns
it. The lands were taken up by a lot of men
pretending to be settlers in good faith But
while Putnam sat In that chair in front OF me
trying to convince me of the wrong was doing
innocent parties by my effort to break the grip
of the wealthy ring, and put the land back into
the public domain where honest poor people can
get it. / had in my possession the afidavits of
for:y-three out of the forty four men who made
the entries, confessing that they had perjured
themselves, and that they had been regularly
hired TO take up the land and turn it over to the
representatives OF the foreign syndicate. That's
the sort OF man Putnam is. l don't know how
he came by his note of introduction from the
Postmaster general, but have every faith that
General Villas had no idea what was the character
of the man he was sending to me-"
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which has blasted my life and made my once
happy home scene of wretchedness and misery.
My only safety seems TO be in being locked
up. When I once taste whisky or beer. then
nothing keep me from getting drunk, and
sooner than 60 without drink would part with
the clothes on my back. The feeling of weak
ness of which spoke is regular and persistent.
coming on every morning about 10 o'clock. and II
/ am at work or the street. 1t seems as though
l would faint if did not get the stmulant- But
this feeling does not exist when | know cannot
get our to obtain it. believe the desire is more
a mental than physical disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-19
A Drunkara.s Theory of Drunkenness.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Freedom from restraint is a bad thing for a
man who drinks to excess. / have been in the
Washington Home at Chicago, for three months
at time. and came cut feeling well. with my
head clear and strong determination not to taste
liquor again. One curious thing, which cannot
explain TO my own satisfaction, is that while in
the home after the first week, seemed to have
no desire for intoxicants at all, but the very next
morning after | was at liberty. though had not
been near a saloon, Tor been in any way brought
into contact with liquor. yet the cid feeling of
for something, TO 'brace mp on returned with
almost irresistible force. / wish | could account
for it, for in every other respect felt jnst as
well when confined in the institution. have
tried drinking coffee. have taken various spe-
cifcs. and kept tobacco. gum and different kinds
OF herbs and roots IN my mouth, hut all in vain.
| cannot conquer the intense desire for LIQUOR
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General and Personal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-Hon. r. S. Taylor,
of Fort Wayne, and Hon. w. Fl. Calkins, of In
dianapolis. are at the Eobitt
Edward S. Davis of Gosport; Frederick Knef
Ter. of Indianapolis, and w. H. Loph. of Colum
bus, Ind, were admitted. to-day. to practice be-
fore the Interior Department.
Herbert N Curtis, of New York, was to day
appointed member of the Board of Pension
Appeals in the Office of the Secretary Of the In
terror. and Robert B. Lamon, of Illinois, was ap
pointed clerk in the Office of the Assistant At
torneygeneral for the Department of the In
terror.
The President to-day appointed Col. Wesley
Merritt to be brgadier-general, vice Brig
Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox retired.
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Celebrating emancipation.

WAsHINGToN, April 18-The twenty fifth an
niversary Of the emancipation of slaves in the
District of Columbia was celebrated here to-day
by parade of colored military and civic soci-
etes Rain irterfered somewhat with the COM
fort of the participants, but 6, 900 men were in
line and many times that number of colored and
white people throneed the sidewalks. The pro-
cession. in passing the executive mansion, was
reviewed by the President
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THE COURT RECORD.
snnerior Court.

Room lion. Napoleon b. Taylor. Judge.
Mary A. Cullen VS.. Edward F. Cullen: divorce
and custody of children granted plaintiff
Julia Briggs vs. John R. Briggs divore grant
ed plaintiff. Cause, failure to provide Also
restored to maiden name, Luella Barlow.
Maggie Wilos VS.. Nancy Smith ct al; dam
ages. On trial by jury
Room 2-Ron. D. w. Howe Judge.
Anna Arteburn VS.. Belt Railway and Stock
yards Company; suit for damages. Jury failed
to agree, and dismissed
The Vireinia-avenue Saving and Loan Asso-
citation vs. William Mohe; suit on account. On
trial
Room 3-Hon. Lewis G. Walker. judge.
Charles L. Tarbell vs. Thomas Wesner ct al. I;
suit for foreclosure of mortgage. On trial.
NEW SUITS.
John c. New VS.. George W. New; complaint
on note. Demand, So. 500.
Freeman Cloe VS.. Maggie Cloe complaint for
divorce. Allegation, abandonment.
William E. Mick ct al. vs.. Paul Wilcox ct al I;
complaint for commission and affidavit in attach
ment
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A Malicious Remark.

San Francisco Chronicle.
II was spiteful. but spitefuness car not be
legislated out of human nature Ibid on hear
that Mrs. Smith is having her picture pa inted?,
You don't say. That old thing!r .fYes, in
deed; painted in OIL" well, / never! In oill
II she ever wants to have good like ne,ss she'll
have to be painted in vinegar"
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1t Didn,t Fit.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

'.How do you like Bernhardtl' he asked.
'.Well, 1 don't exactly know; I've only seen her
once" but she has a wonderful repertoire
HAS she2 "Well / must say the one she had
on when saw her didn't fit her at all in the
back And then it was as still as a store that
never advertises
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The ounce is slow grower. For this reason
it is an advantage to buy trees we'll grown, say
four or five feet high, rather than mere slips
Such trees will come in bearing In three or four
years, and prove cheaper in the end than smaller
trees at a lower price.
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Judge Treats Successor.

WASHINGTON, April 18-The President to-day
appointed William j. Allen to be United States
District Judge for the Southern district of ILL.,
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MINOR MATTERS.

The Villas Family ana Land Ring-The
Frauds in California.
Washington Special In New York Post.
A dispatch from Milwaukee to the morning
press connecting the Postmaster. generals broth
", Joseph Villas with the alleged fraudsin the red
veod-timhor lands OF California has excited
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-19

DIED.
KERLIN-James NJ. Keriin at the family residence
5S5 North Tennessee street Sunday noon, aged ~
years. Funeral from residence at p. to-day.
SPRINGSTEEN-Mrs. Annie Springsteen, wife Of
jefferson Springsteen, at Cairo III. Remains be
seen Wednesday afternoon at the residence of her
son. Robert Springsteen. Ais North Illinois street
Funeral Thursday morning, at $50. from St. Joseph
Church. Friends invited.
COBLE-At 1 o'clock, April 1S. George Coble
aged fftyfve years. Funeral from his late residence
3s3 West New York street, on Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock Friends invited
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-19

A UTION SALE CT HATS AND CAPS TO THE
N trade. S. G. Seaton's stock will be SOLD
Wednesday morning. April 90 at 10 o'clock. at our
room. No. 139 West Washington street. in lots to
suit dealers. large variety of hats caps. gloves.
fur caps This stock is all frstcass fresh desirable
goods belonging to one of our leading stores going
out of business Comprises full line of soft and
stiff hats and must be sold Terms cash. GUSTIN
s. MCCuRDY, Auctioneers.
ID EAIl ESTATE AT AUCTION-WE WILL SELL
III at public auction on Tuesday. April 10. at
o'clock p. M. on the premises. $40 Broadway, the
two-story frame house, cellar, cistern. well wood
house, stable gas. rooms nicely papered. and all in
frst-class conditions; title perfect sale positive
Terms-A small cash payment; balance in one. two
three and four years. w. E. MICK a. CO. L. n.
PERRY, Auctioneer.
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WANTED.

VITANTED-SALESMEN TO SELL SPECIAL
w ties to merchants: commission; big profits. H9
A. PERSHING South Bend. Ind
VIZ AND YOUNG MEN TO
w decorate holiday novelties for holiday and gen
eral trades steady employment So per week earned all
materials furnished; work mailed free. Address NEW
ENGLAND DECORATIVE WORKS. 10 Pearl
street. Boston, Mass; P. o. box, 5O7S. CARGO a0g
XKTANTED-LADY (AND COMPREHENSIVE
w for Mrs Campbelrs patent electric
bossed Empress; richest and most stylish waterproof
outside garment made: beautiful as satin ard moro
durable. Large profits. Address. with stamp E. II.
CAMPBELL & CO.. asa W. Randolph ST., Chicago.
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FOR SALE.

NOR SALE-ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Il the Weekly Indiana State Journal Send for =
TOR SALE-TWO TWENTY-ACRE LOTS AND
Il one forty acres. adjoining Brightwood gas-well
No $125, $175 and 5000 per acre. respectively.
this week. After gas is struck telling what will
be the price. T. A. GOODWIN. 37io Virginia avenue
NOR SALE-CITY OF NASHVILLE, TENNES-
II see property, improved and unimproved city
growing rapidly; a boom Parties who de-
sire to buy on speculation for homes will do well
write to ARLINGTON g. FARRAR, Real Estate
Agents, 35lo North College street. Nashville. Tenn.
Refer to all our banks.
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r AIDES, DO YOUR OWN DYEING, at Home
IL with
PEERLESS DYES.

They will dye everything They are sold everywhere.
Price Q cents package-40 colors They have
or for Fastness of olor or non fading qualities They
do not crock smut. For sale by +. 4. Bryan drug
gist cor. Mass ave. and Vermont ST.: Herman 4.
Frauer apothecarv. 246 East Washington ST. ]. G.
French. Masonic Temple drug store, Ger. Tennessee
and Washington streets Otto Sehopp. druggist and
apothecary 800 South Illinois ST.. indianapolis. Ind
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THEO. DIETZ,
COURT-H Oh 81 MEAT MARKET,
147 East Washington ST..

147 East Washington ST..
Keeps only the choicest quality of fresh and salt
meats constantly hand. Beef, veal pork, lamb,
mutton bologna sausage, wienerwurst sausage
Frankfort sausage Hosten sausage. summer sausage,
fresh pork sausage liver blood sausage head
cheese sausage, pressed beef lard, hams shout
ders, bacon.
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AUCTION SALES.

dustin & McCURDY, AUCTIONEERS, NO.
VI 139 West Washington street, opposite State
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7NHE ERE AT Steps SHOE FACTORY.
i last week. DESTROYED large number of shoes and
only slightly damaged by water great many Others
Those injured but slightly we have purchased at our
price. and we propose to give our patrons the
benefit of the bargain we have secured
The Great Sale
Commences this morning at 8 o'clock The slightly.
soiled goods
Ladies' Fine Shoes
Running in size from SIS to SIS Ladies, do not fail
to visit this great bargain sale.
BATES HOUSE SHOE STORE.
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ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS-AT-LAW

Is East Main St., Room 2. ROCHESTER, n. Y.
Our editorial work upon the Reporters" requiring
daily examination of current decisions pre-
pared to furnish briefs and arguments therefron in
pending in Courts of the States and the United
States.
correspondence.
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The Mystery of Nations-Their Health and
Morals-Why They Prosper Here.
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FINANCIAL

MONEY TO -OAN-6 PER CENT. HORACE
M MCKAY. Room IL, Talbot & News Block.
EINANCIAL-MONEYO ON MORTGAGE-FARMS
Il and city property. G. E. COFFIN % co.
OK PER CENT. ON CITY PROPERTY IN IN
y diana. Isaac H kiersted. ID Martindale Block.
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ployment or connection with the Times
In 9th er words. the writer's who come here
prepare ue'Ss articles to sell to you at SO much
line!"
"Precisslyn
"TLey correspond to the space-writers of eur
Offices. Do any of these penny-a-llners ever
gradua te from this kind of work into regular
empo tvnent on the Times2'
The manager said with peculiar emphasis II
might say almost never!p
In The composing-room there was the same
silen &c. decorum and discipline. There were
grea,s screens back of the printers to protect
them and their manuscript copy from the sight
OF casual passers-by. The cases are of dark
wood. The floors are stone. Everywhere ex-
cessl cleanliness and order. There is no
loimging The printers obliged to put all
tfeir outside wraps ana hats in a check ROOM
No article of apparel is allowed to rest any
CT the cases. The sombre dignity of the estab-
'fshment extends to the compositors, who are
not generally regarded in newspaper Offices as
models of decorum Cabinet ministers could not
be more grave and quiet in their work than these
| printers. Over each case is beautiful circular
light under glass globe 1t is gas produced
1 by the action of hot air instead of cold. It is
stronger and mellower than the electric light.
| Upon the right Of the conposing-room are the
/ famous typesettng machines of the Office
They are used to set up all the matter of the pa
per, except the advertisements The manager
says there is oquestion about the prscticability
| of the type setting machines. The trouble is
| wholly outside of the machines in their being
employed. From this is inferred that it is
largely question of overcoming the printers
objections to them The Times will not employ
union printers. The parliamentary debates are
dictated directly from the galleries of the houses
Of Parliament through long speaking tube to
one of the type-seIters Each typesetter can
set about one column an hour 2eH
In England there is official report of the
proceedings of Parliament corresponding to the
Congressional Record of the United States. Ii
is left to private enterprise to make the record.
Ard the result Is all of the rubbish is lost. and
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AGENTS WANTED.

A GENTS wANTED-MEN AND WOMEN Ev
"A erywhere for easy money-making business
Workers clear $50 per week easily. Don't fail to
send for terms and free samples if YOU need paying
business MERRILL MFG CO.. B g. Chicago.
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ATTORNEYS


ROBERT DEsrY--"Desty's Federal Citations. Ship
ping and Admiralty Federal Procedure" etc.
Editor Western Reporter.
CHARLES A. RAy-ExJustice Supreme Court, Indi-
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-16

that does not live up to tn" principles IL
processes cannot expect long To
exist. The labor movement must be- car,
ried ON by the Trades Unions and the
| .abor Party when the weather gets
cool.
At the corner Of Orange and Chapel
streets an old man may be seen almost
daily, sweeping clouds Of dust upon the
unfortunate pedestrians who may chance
to pnss that way. If this Is the best That
the city authorities can do in the street
cleaning line, they had better let the
streets alone. No doubt most OF the cIt
larns Of this village would submit to the
dirt in the streets in preference to carry
me it home in their ears and eyes or on
their backs. II strikes us that we have
heard Of streets being cleaned at night
in cities not yet buried under mountains
Of old fogyism and obsolete political
economy but we may he mistaken.
The lying Nrrs prints an alleged con
versation with Isaac Mailhouse, tn" pro-
prietor Of printing office where was
published until recently, n weekly paper,
in which Mr.. MaIhouse is made to say
.'lahor organizations have done IN" com
pIclcly," and intimating that bccnus" he
could not make Il success ont OF ms news
paper speculation, til" labor movement
here was dead, The NcWS would like to
have it 50, but we don't believe that Mr..
Mailhousc sad anything of kind lie
started his newspaper as he said honestly
and openly, to make money, and he
was not so foolish as to suppose that he
could make it out Of the labor organIZii-
tons, or the honest men in the labor
movement. No one can do that. Mail
house was not IN the political labor
movement, hut was a ''democrat, ana
did not hesitate to show his c0lors to
men of that way of thinking. The N'r>
must be hard up for material when 1t
prints such stun.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-16
LABOR DAY COW MITTEE.

A meeting of the general committee
Of the Trades Council for celebrating
Labor Day was held last Sunday evening
and II subcommittee was appointed to
make arrangements for the place To hold
picnic. 1t is desired that every labor
organization in this vicinity should unite
IN celebrating this day. 1t is requested
that the secretary of each labor organi-
zatlon in the city not connected with
the Trades Council should send his ad-
dreas to Secretary of Trades Council, +.
o. Drawer, l03, that they may be com
mumCated with.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-16
BR EW Frs UNION.

At the last meeting. of the Trades
Council the delegates of the above
union reported that the Bassermann
Rock brewery were employing some
non-union men in violation Of the con-
tract they had made with the Union and
asked for a committee to visit the COM
pany and try to induce them to act up
to their agreement and make theirs a
true Union brewery The committee
was appointed and upon the fourth
waited upon Mr.. Basserman, where they
learned that there was but one man that
the Union could reasonably object to-
and he it was agreed should be replaced
by union man, and it was supposed
that settled the matter; but this week
the committee Of the Union Informed
us the objectionable man has not been
discharged, but another non-union man
has been hired ON; also, that Weibel has
not acted up to the decision of the arbi-
tratiun committee in his case. which will
explain the disappearance of the names
Of these two brewers in the card of the
Brewers Union, which appears in an
other column.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-16
" EEkLN PAWN ESTS.

Since the weekly payment system went
into effect, great change is manifest in
those localities where railroad men pre-
dominate. The circulation of money
among store keepers is more even. and
many, instead OF changing the system of
paying for their family supplies monthly
to weekly, pay rs they go, with the re-
suit that IN many cases they do not buy
So much, nor pay 50 high prices, but
many men that formerly seldom had Il
dollar in their pockets week after pay
day, now are never entirely out of money,
and all admit that the condition of rail
road men is materially improved.
It is not many years since most of the
people declared that il would he impossi-
bic for such concern as the consolidated
railroad Ia pay off their great army of
employees weekly. but when they set
themselves about il. the change came
apparently without effort. We are in
dehted Ia the Consolidated for demon
stratng that weekly payments are prac-
! ticahle, for if ii can he done 10y this cor
| poratlon IT can he practictd hy any other.